The Google Doodle celebrated the birthday of Zamboni inventor Frank Zamboni Jr. today through an interactive ice resurfacing game. If Zamboni were still alive, he’d be 112.

The Doodle shows a small ice surface that is scraped up by small, cartoon ice skaters. After the skaters clear the ice, it’s your job, in a Zamboni, to clean up the ice surface where it’s been scraped up. You control the Zamboni either through the keyboard or by using the mouse.

After your game ends, you can then share your score over the Google Plus social network.

Frank Zamboni’s namesake invention came after his family bought an ice rink in the Los Angeles area. Coming from an auto-parts background, Zamboni put together a machine that would allow one person to resurface the ice at his indoor rink in about ten minutes. Previously, this same resurfacing job would take upwards of 90-100 minutes and would take a crew of at least three people.

The Zamboni machine took off like crazy, becoming an iconic part of ice skating generally, and the game of hockey specifically. Now, the large ice resurfacer is an essential part of the NHL tradition.

Although all modern ice resurfacers are based around Zamboni’s designs and are known coloquially as “Zambonis,” the name is actually a registered trademark. Only machines that specifically come from the Zamboni company are actually Zambonis.

The Zamboni resurfaces the ice by, basically, shaving off the top, uneven layer of ice and then replacing it with a thin, smooth layer of water which quickly freezes. The Zamboni site gets into the specifics:

The basic process involves the machine’s sharp blade, which shaves a thin layer of ice as screw conveyors (augers) rotate above the blade to remove the shavings. The shavings are collected in a large bin, known as the snow tank. Meanwhile, jets of water clean the ice by flushing dirt and debris from the remaining grooves in the ice into a vacuum hose. Finally, a towel spreads the ice-making water (usually warm water), which sprays out of holes at the back of the machine, leaving behind a smooth sheet of ice.

The first Zamboni, the “Model A,” which was created to resurface the family’s Paramount Iceland rink, is mostly a touring musem piece at this point, but according to the company, it’s also still in fully working order and can admirably resurface any ice surface.

Frank Zamboni Jr. died in 1988, just a few years after creating his last invention: a tool for preventing ice build up along the edges of a rink.